#were

We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#bookstore #just #lawyers #money #were

They were willing to do anything to stop me. ↗

— Wilt Chamberlain

#me #stop #were #willing

But I think there was a sense amongst the House Republicans especially that we didn't just want to be opposed to Bill Clinton; that we wanted to tell the country what we were for and to brand ourselves in a more positive manner. ↗

— Ed Gillespie

#bill #bill clinton #brand #clinton #country

We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order. ↗

— Asa Gray

#beliefs #books #considerations #different #down

It was 1988, I believe, that I met Grit. We were both appearing in a Canadian Folk Festival and as we sat backstage he handed me his guitar. I played it, loved it, and then found out that he'd made it himself. ↗

— Tom Chapin

#backstage #believe #both #canadian #festival

My wife asked me once if I weren't a comedian what I would do. I couldn't answer the question. I never imagined doing anything else. ↗

— Dave Chappelle

#anything #asked #comedian #doing #else

There was never any career plan. When 'Red Dwarf' started I thought we were doing a curious little sitcom on BBC2, I didn't think I was becoming an actor. I didn't see that 21 years later I'd still be talking about it, let alone filming a new one. For me everything's always been an accident. ↗

— Craig Charles

#accident #actor #alone #always #any

My parents were both Spanish-speakers and they used to speak to me and my siblings in Spanish and we'd answer them in English. ↗

— America Ferrera

#both #english #me #parents #siblings

I never went on an audition - when they were really looking at everybody. ↗

— Joan Chen

#everybody #i #looking #never #really

Heather and I decided we were going to be pretty low-key at the convention. ↗

— Mary Cheney

#decided #going #heather #i #low-key